Daire Lynch and Philip Doyle captured Ireland’s fourth medal at the Paris Olympic Games.
Sinead O'Carroll Reports from Paris BURNING SUNSHINE COOKING the dense air and two thousand gruelling metres of water stretching out ahead.The barriers. The endline. Something greater than the 9-5. Redemption.Advertisement It wasn’t just in Daire Lynch’s head but his coach, The Viper, convinced him it was. Philip Doyle, his boatmate, said it would be fine. They won their heats, and their semi-final, in the Double Sculls.
Just 18 months ago, he was working 9-7 in a market research start-up in Manhattan. One morning, the Tipperary man decided there must be “more to life than this” and got back into rowing training proper. And so it was Lynch who would join Doyle, now 30 and a doctor, as he returned to the Olympics after a 10th place finish in Tokyo.
The Irish boat was in a steady fourth with 500m to go but Florian Enache and Andrei Sebastian Cornea weren’t blowing up as is also their wont. “I kind of just lost the handle a little bit in one of the strokes and I looked at him and I was like, ‘Jesus, we better get going here’. The Americans were far enough back, we were moving on the Dutch but look, what can you do? You push yourself to the line, sometimes you fall over it but you manage to rectify the glitch.
“So I think a little bit maybe was just relief,” Doyle says. “I think when we won the semi when we won the heat, there’s that great feeling of adrenaline. As you’re coming in, you know, you’ve got it in the bag, whereas there, you know, you’re looking, right?
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